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Heck yeah, paper boarding passes. I usually just use the million kiosks at the airport to check in and print my boarding passes. Then i've got 'em in paper so as long as i don't lose my bag or pants...i've got my passes. Phones do weird stuff and die and get screwy with the scanners sometimes. idk. I just always like to have a hardcopy of everything because i'm old i guess. And i find it a lot more convenient. Especially when going through security and you've got like 5 bins filled with multiple laptops that they're messing with and asking you about and belts and jackets and keys and whatever it's gots in it's pockets including that phone and wallet and everything. Or at smaller airports, it's fun to get like...very personal service. Feels fancy. Even though it's not. But i'm also an early airport enjoyer. Partially just because i love the smell of jet fuel in the morning. It smells like adventure and excitement! Plus people watching in airports is fun. But also because it's one of those things where if you're too early...you can just go to an airport bar or wander around the terminal and look at stuff and watch planes and stuff. If you're late, you're kinda screwed. The one time i was "not early enough" was the most infuriating thing. Left plenty early but got caught up in a stupid mess getting to the airport. So an hour and a half or so later than intended, arrived with still plenty of time to spare and literally no line at security or anything. That's where i learned about the benefit of checking in early online. I would've easily made my flight but the system locks out check-in at a certain point. Though the flip side of that is...if i'd checked-in early and not made my flight, i wouldn't have been fully refunded and able to just fly home a bit later that day on a different airline. So...Pros and Cons. But probably depends entirely on the specific airline and context. The shoes thing is hilarious. I've only ever had to do it once. And it was apparently specifically because i have "over the ankle" boots on. Which, i'm not entirely sure how they could've known for sure. But i've also flown tons of other times with full height boots including the exact same pair, and never been hassled about it at all. So lol. They definitely just make stuff up. Follow the rules for carry-on fluids and all that weird stuff though and it'll just be a weird mild nuisance at worst. And maybe even an anecdote later. I used to do this and sometimes had weird ear stuff as a kid. That was my mom's "trick" to fix it. But rarely worked. Somewhere along the line, i just grew out of it i guess. But also realized that it's not so much a "chewing" motion that equalizes the pressure. It's more like a "yawn". lol. That'll fix it pretty much every time. And without having to really chomp like crazy on that gum too.

1-20 Troy Faunatu LT 2-51 Zach Frazier OC 3-84 Jalen McMillan WR 3-98 Mason Smith DL 4-119 Jarrian Jones CB 6-178 Joe Milton QB 6-195 Tommy Eichenberg LB Bonus OL Barton Bonus NT Sweat Bonus WR Corley Milton to us, see above

Thanks, man - really appreciated your input and thoughts throughout the draft process. I was still tweaking the list as I was posting, but you have to just settle on a final draft at some point. Like you said, the quality really flattens out once you're past a certain point. Love Puni, don't know why he isn't talked about more - looks like a really clean, versatile prospect to me.

I really don't want to feed the machine generated question here...but for the purposes of this thread, i think i will. It is not able to generate new and novel ideas intelligently. It's simply resynthesizing whatever it's fed on, to a lowest common denominator sort of level. Real intelligence is the ability to apply completely unique, radical, atypical or non-linear approaches from completely separate aspects of life to problem solving. Not to chew up and regurgitate a dataset in condensed form like an owl feeding it's chick pellets of baby bull****. Real intelligence is inherently creative and curious. Artificial intelligence is formulaic and relies entirely on contributions from "real intelligence" to "learn". Quite simply...AI has to "ask" a stupid question like this about the difference between "Real Intelligence" and "Artificial Intelligence". That's all it can do. It's that, or feed it a bunch of text and maybe it formulates something half coherent out of the thoughts of thousands of actually intelligent people's thoughts. With the way most AI is fed, probably thousand of completely imbeciles thoughts mixed in as well.

Lakers are cooked. They can’t win. Lebron and Russell are blaming the refs when they’ve lost 10 straight to the Nuggets.

Wilson is 50/50 to break out?!?! Never say never of course, but I’d put it around 5/95 to break out man 😁 Aidan O’Connell has more chance to ‘break out’ so it’s not a move we should have made imho.

Sims must be stopped! He's the real real enemy here.

Looks like Denver may have given up on trading up for a QB. I guess if anyone can fix Zach he's in the right place for it.

I'm about ready to get prepared for more unanticipated moves in the top ten than we've previously brain stormed. The entire first two hours or so may drag on because it's based entirely on where the top QBs and WRs go and to who. If one of more of the QBs slide out of the top five or even top ten then it's likely the WR and OT will replace them and the board at #9 may look much different than previous projections that have the QBs going #1-#4 or at worst at #5 or #6. Overall I see a draft that features offense far more than defense so there may be some fair bargain later on in round one for those patient enough to let the players come to them. But I also feel if a draft is saying go for offense you should do it. I still feel that if there is an elite player on the board at #9 Poles will take him and he should trading down only if that elite player(s) is(are) not there and knowing Poles I'm 100% certain he's already prepared for this and has his ducks in a row.

I really don’t want a player coming off seriously injury last year on day one or two. I see Brooks getting mocked to us a lot in round 2… I’d rather not.

Not as far as interior OL go and especially not OC. I don't deny that top OC have been drafted as high as round one but there are far more starting now who were drafted after that. Some long after. My point is simple. In the current NFL the rules are slanted toward the offense and scoring. You not only want a 30 ppg offense you need one now. Would you agree? So why would you trade away from the opportunity to draft an elite point producer at WR or a top level LT to have a shot at an OC? It makes no sense to me that Poles would do that this year drafting where he is. In another year when we've won far more games and we're drafting somewhere in the 20s then I might agree especially if an OC or OG is the BPA on the board at that pick. I can only say what I have all long. For far too long this team has lacked elite difference makers on offense and no matter how good our defenses were they were not good enough for us to even beat GB twice a year and win the NFCN like we did in the '80s. Yeah, the game has changed and positional values have changed with but towards passers and pass catchers who make the big money now. Look at what it's costing to sign a top shelf FA WR or retain your own and tell me that being able to have a younger one under his rookie contract for 5 years isn't of value. The top NFL OC get half or less of what a top WR gets. I've been as guilty as others as far as falling in love with players who would not become difference makers but I've changed my point of view because it didn't work out as planned.

I hope this doesn’t happen but I have a feeling that George Paton will get fired a few days after the draft and they’ll give Payton full control.

I think Penix would be a great consolation price. He is way better under pressure than what the national championship game makes it seem.

I, on the other hand, wonder how bad can Caleb Williams be on the Bears

Great work. Takes guts to put your work out there like that. And just a lot of time and work to get everything together before the draft. I'm still very knee deep in trying to pluck away at my own list, while dealing with a ton of other stuff. Really enjoyed some of the humorous notes sprinkled throughout. Ohrhorhhorhoroho is forever just going to be "Ruke" to everyone throughout his career. lol. Not a deep, rich, luxurious wood errr...name like Mahogany. Unless Orhorhoro becomes a star...in which case, everyone will get it sorted. And still type it out as "Ruke" mostly anyway. But it's one of those names that i have to throttle down for typing like Mississippi to make sure i've got the right number of things in the right order. And it still never looks quite right, and triggers every spellcheck in the world obviously. A lot of pretty similar thoughts that i agree with actually. Especially earlier, i think there's some pretty decent alignment of our boards that look fairly aligned. Dom Puni "unusually" high is something that jumped out to me, but i largely agree on. He's got supreme versatility and really big upside as an Interior Fixture. Also some that i really disagree on and things start to really unravel later as far as alignment...but that's naturally going to happen. Everyone's board is going to start to diverge pretty wildly outside the Top-60/90ish at most.

No issues on the Falcons pick i would prefer Latu but would be thrilled with Turner as well.

Yay, a Net Reduction. Jersey design is basically Boise State-esque, or insert whatever High School you can think of. Only plus is a more included third color, but nothing else really looks like an upgrade, or even tread water. The jagged bolt on the sleeves does nothing for me. The colors themselves look a little more bled out than before, even the orange. Helmet got the worst of the deal. Whatever the [BLEEP] that back arrow crap is completely tanked the look. Who exactly out there finds that particular design APPEALING? Two years and 10,000 individual contributions sounds about right for this sort of slop. [BLEEP]in' Corpocracy.

I am just sitting here waiting for Schefy to put out the report we have traded up to #3. Then I will wait for the report we have traded to #2 during the draft. Hey Tommy Testicles, go get Jayden.

A perfect example of fixing something that wasn't broke.

Lakers bringing up officiating in their press conferences. Shameless actions.

Nuggets were 0/20 from 3 outside of Joker/MPJ and won. Jokic kept them in it long enough for Jamal to stop sucking. This dude is on his way towards being a top 5 player ever.

Sione Vaki, RB/S Utah - Wow. What a wild player to watch tape on. I only watched a bit of Utah naturally all year (while they were making me giggle by dunking on Florida). And I was saving him for later until Vaki exploded all over the USC film while I was watching Calen Bullock. All of the reports that I had read described a physically limited guy that was a bit of nothing at both positions. So I haven't had a lot of incentive to spend time on him yet. And at safety or nickel, I really get that assessment. Vaki is a thickly built, shorter player with really short arms that show up on tape. He has great wrapping up technique for his frame and short arms, but it is just hard to get to guys with ~29 in arms. He triggers and really explodes in a straight line, but that straight line stuff can lead to bad angles and difficulty changing directions. But he's tough and he's smart and he fights with what he has. At running back, Vaki had almost no tape, but what was there was pretty nuts. Every time they ran outside zone from gun with him, it looked to threaten to be a TD. Makes one cut and goes. He scored a 70 yard TD against man on a rail route and took another swing pass for another explosive in limited action. He has spent time as a slot receiver in his past, and you can see that by how he catches passes naturally (even one he didn't expect, lol) and runs wiggly routes. And he's still a really compact guy and will go through arm tackles with a head of steam. I am surprised that he ran a 4.6. I thought he'd be a guy who was clunky at changing directions but was pretty gnarly going straight. He chewed up angles and ground as a runner and as a pursuit defender. I'd be fascinated to see his on field top speed data. I actually kind of dig looking at Vaki as a running back flyer later on. Calen Bullock, S USC - A really fluid, really rangy safety that spends some time as a nickel in man coverage. He handled this variety of coverage responsibilities really well. He's so smooth at following players and breaking on passing plays from both single high and from the seam and deep half in MOFO. From the various descriptions and gradings, I was expecting a truly terrible tackler, but I didn't get to see evidence of much of that in the couple of games that I saw. He looked like Gumby out there, but he got the guys that I saw to the ground that he really needed to. But I believe the insinuations. There just isn't a lot of mass to his frame. My problem with his run defense / non coverage responsibilities was more like he's just very floaty and contact avoidant and not aggressive and committed to his defensive responsibility as a run defender so he's just not in the right spaces often enough. Malachi Corley, WR Western Kentucky - I've also written a lot about Malachi previously, because along with Suamataia I think that all of the evidence lines up to make him a quite likely 49ers draftee. Like Suamataia, he's physically similar to player that we are likely to replace soon and has been brought in for a visit. Corley could be sensibly drafted with our third or possibly second round pick. He was the most dangerous player in college football at handling short passes for long YAC last year. It's his calling card. I personally think that he could fill Deebo's current hole in the offense satisfactorily (albeit with a loss of Deebo's highest upside 70 and 80 yard plays). Johnny Wilson, WR / ? Florida State - Another super weird player. Crazy long and big for a wide receiver, not a wing or H-Back. Feels like an evolution of what Jajaun Jennings and Kendrick Bourne brought as the big slot. Engulfs corners as a blocker. Really fluid route runner. Stacks players surprisingly well for a giant. Had no YAC whatsoever on tape. Really poor concentration drops on film. I would be entertained having him on the roster, but have no idea where I'd take him. Probably a 5th rounder for me, just can't live with the drops, but I could see teams falling in love.

The more I think about it, the more I realize we aren't going OT at #31, with the sole exception of fautanu falling that far. He seems to be the only guy I've watched that will be a surefire, day 1 plug and play player in our system who might actually fall to us. We just aren't going to have the same board at OT as other teams, and I think Kyle and John have a lot of confidence in Foerster and are perfectly happy with "reaching" on a T in the third or fourth round to be a swing T who maybe will become more than that. If they wait, they will probably draft more than one. I think they are perfectly content doing so. Upgrading the depth on the OL is super important and that means spending multiple draft picks. If you are going to spend multiple picks on OL, I think you can justify spending early picks on other positions. I think it's much more likely we draft defense in the first round. If there is a player you love that falls, then you take him. I could see 4-5 different defensive players falling that would fit in here. It makes sense to continue to keep the cupboards stocked on defense. Our offense in 25 could be absurdly expensive if/when we extend Brock and aiyuk. We will need productive young players on defense. I also think it's very possible none of the defensive players fall and all of the top OL prospects get taken and we trade back 10+ spots and "reach" on a OT that everyone will says should be drafted in the late third or something. If there is someone you think is a day 1 starter available at #31, you probably don't trade down. So I wouldn't love it because it would mean our first round targets wouldn't have fallen to us, and then I'm going to wonder if it would have made more sense to trade up.

That sequence where Jokic threw up that three and Gordon tipped toe on the baseline to save the ball and throws it to an open MPJ. ******* wild man. That sequence probably fails 9 outta 10 times.